Monday, April 30, 2018

the last book I ever read (The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America, excerpt five)

JON MATTHEWS (Louis in Taper Too Millennium workshop, 1990): I think Oskar is a remarkable person. The most positive force in theater over the last decade at the Public. Oskar took me out to dinner in L.A. We had a wonderful fifty-five minutes of shooting the shit and talking about the production. And then he looked at his watch and said, “Oh shit, I have a meeting in Westwood in twenty minutes! Look, for various reasons, including that there’s no money to put you up, we cannot ask you to come to San Francisco to do the Eureka production,” and then it turned out he didn’t have any cash on him, so I had to pay for the meal in which I was fired! (Laughs.)